Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

will test N900 version and report back - thanks.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Installed the n9 version and it working fine.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I tried using your ppa via sudo apt-add-reporsitory https://launchpad.net/~mzanetti/+archive/testing

But an apt-get update following resulted in:

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I havd lost track - does this on the n900 work with xbmc v13.0 alpha x?

I am having trouble getting my files listed if they are not in a library: videos for one. Can see and play them on the server but not see them via the n900.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I think for using apt-add-repostory its this:

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I have not yet tried xbmc 13 alpha at all. If you want a usable system I would not recommend upgrading xbmc to 13 alpha yet. If you still do, please send me some informations on how it works, what parts of xbmcremote need to be updated to make it work with 13

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Thank you, that did it. I will report testing results in a few days, when I had time to mess with my xbmc.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Hey. I've released 1.3.1. As usual, the announcement post on my website: http://notyetthere.org/?p=240

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

great:) keep up the good work.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Nearly forgot to report: this works with xbmc 13 alpha pretty well. The up:down/left:right buttons can be a tad unresponsive but overall, I would say this is good to go.

Sees files just fine: that issue sorted after a reboot.

Thank-you...

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Another N900 user here!
1.3.1 works for me nicely.

Many thanks.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I need xbmcremote for Sailfish OS!!!

:)

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Even if a fully featured Sailfish OS for N9 comes out tomorrow, without Xbmcremote (and a few others) I wont switch.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I've taken some first steps into building an app for Sailfish*. But I don't have a Jolla device (nor planning to buy one in the near feature). This means I'm looking for some input on what a "native Sailfish look" is, as I can only determine this from the sparse documentation on the Sailfish website and the components demo provided by the SDK. Furthermore I would need someone willing to test the app on a real device, as the SDK doesn't give a good impression of how it looks and feels on a real device.

I've already briefly discussed a Sailfish app with mzanetti and both our opinion is to keep the app the same as the Harmattan and Ubuntu app, with the native look of the OS. So I'm mostly looking for input on what would be the best implementation of the current toolbar, in which you can toggle between "media", "keypad" and "now playing". mzanetti and I are guessing this would be a pull down menu, but maybe there is a better solution to this problem.

*I've currently got basic host selection and connecting to the host working, without authentication, but network discovery can't be tested as the app runs in a VirtualBox hosted and NATed VM so it can't broadcast to my machines network. Besides the boring "make a connection" stuff I also already have a working cover which displays the name of the connected host and provides stop and play/pause functionality during playback. So I've taken some small steps, but the heavy lifting of media browsing, keypad and now playing still have to be done.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I'm willing to test it on my Jolla device since I use various xbmc remotes all the time. As far as design goes, most native apps have a minimalist/transparent look. Your current design should adapt well.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Aftermarket N9s are quite cheap now, sometimes less ~100€. Why not buy one or have the community donate 5€/face to buy you one for development Sailfish installation and testing.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Same here!

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

As someone asked me by email for a status update on the Sailfish app I'll just update everyone here :)

Currently a lot of small and bigger things are finished. But some things still need to be done. Most notably I'm still putting together the last bits and pieces together for the now playing page (audio and subtitle track selection), and I still need to start working on the keypad. The other parts are mostly finished, including a fully working active cover with multiple actions depending on whether the app is disconnected, connected, or XBMC is playing, viewing item details and input support (input dialogs triggered from XBMC).

Although a lot of things are already done there is still one blocker left. Which is mzanetti reviewing all the work I have done already :p But as he's quite busy he hasn't come around to it yet. For those who are really eager to test it could do so, the code can be pulled from Gitorious here. This doesn't yet include the work on the now playing page as it is still unfinished and a bit buggy (the branch is on Gitorious also for those who also want to try it, but it doesn't include all the latest work of the other branch yet), and the keypad is still missing, as explained.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Will not connect to my XBMC because it's newer than v.11

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

How do you mean it's newer than v.11? You mean you're still running XBMC 11 (or older)? That's indeed unsupported. It does work with XBMC 12 Frodo and I'm guessing with 13 Gotham also.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I have V.14 of XBMC running on Mac OS X 10.7.5 and The application complains that I am not running V11 of XBMC so…..

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Hi,

I have a kind of unique feature request. I am using Xbmcremote with my Raspberry Pi. Every time I want to use it I have to search for the TV remote.
Solution: Allow to send to following three CEC commands:
Turn on TV, Switch to this source (XBMC), Turn off TV.

It would be great, but I do not know if its even possible without adding an addon to XBMC.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

The 1.3.1 update http://notyetthere.org/maemomeego/xb...tan0_armel.deb said it's for Xbmc 11 Eden and didn't connect to latest Raspbmc (Frodo I guess).

Reinstalled 1.3.0 from Ovi store which works. Maybe the 1.3.1 update was build for the wrong target?

Is it possible to update ovi store to 1.3.1?

Thanks, M.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Does anyone know if the lastest version for n9 (1.3.1) work with xbmc 13?

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

A few days ago I installed openelec 4.0.1 on my Raspberry Pi it uses a current Gotham build. Every thing works flawlessly. Even better than before.

I am no longer affected by the "connection denied" error.
Which forced me to reboot unter Frodo.

Additionally XBMC now wakes up the TV as soon as I send input using Xbmcremote, so I can avoid searching for my remote. And I can withdraw my feature request. :)

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Anyone has a rpm for sailfish to test? I can try to help out

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

mzanetti merged my sailfish port yesterday :cool:. There may be a release (/Harbour submission, and probably OpenRepos too) in the upcoming days, but no promises yet. But you will of course be able to build it yourself if you have the Sailfish SDK installed.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Good news!

I've just uploaded the app to OpenRepos where it is already available. I've also uploaded it to Harbour, but it needs to go through their approval process, which I expect to fail (multiple times?). This because some things aren't allowed in Harbour. One of these things is reading the contact list, which is needed for showing the contacts name when you get an incoming phone call. So when using the app from Harbour you would see the number, not the name. But it might be this feature needs to be removed completely, as it looks like some of the other APIs the app requires for this feature are also locked down.

In other news, mzanetti also created a new version for Ubuntu, which he said is already available in the store. Too my knowledge this version only contains a couple of small changes in the media browser, as you can now sort the items, and when browsing videos you can hide those which you already watched (a feature which is also present in the Sailfish version).

There is no new version for MeeGo Harmattan / the Nokia N9. But as you can read there are no major new features added. The latest MeeGo release should also work with XBMC Gotham so that shouldn't be any problem either. But this would most probably also be a goodby to MeeGo, As mzanetti works for Canonical, on Ubuntu, so mostly focuses on the Ubuntu version, and I only use my Jolla so will only develop for Sailfish. But if someone else is willing to step up and maintain the MeeGo version my guess is that wouldn't be a problem.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Thanks a lot for this! I've already installed it and looks great but I have some difficulties using the keypad in this version. When I use the up or down keys most of the times I bring up the pulley menu. I don't know if theres something you can do about it or it's that I don't do the gesture properly.

Also, If I experience crashes, how can I report them? Do you have a log or do we have to run the app from the terminal?

Regards,

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

It shouldn't do this. Does it also navigate the page stack on swiping left or right, or does it only trigger the pulley? I can't try to reproduce it right now, but will look into it later today.

There isn't (crash)logging build in. I would need to ask mzanetti if that would be a possibility to include. But if the crash is reproducible you can post the steps to reproduce it in this thread or email them to me (my email address is listed on the about page).

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I've only experienced this on up & down. I think it's because if I start the upwards gesture from the center of the keypad it will trigger the pulley menu gesture, but not sure. I'm used to use xbmcremote on n9 without even having to look at the phone so maybe it's the way I'm used to do the gesture.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

It seems a bit odd to me, as I've added the code to not propagate the click/move to other elements, which, as you say, does work for the pagestack (without it you even couldn't go left/right as it would navigate between the pages). So it's odd the same fix doesn't apply to the pully. But the fix should be easy, I may be able to make a second release containing this fix later today.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I've just looked into this. Could it be you're swiping really fast (already making the swipe before touching the screen)? Because that's the only way I can reproduce it. When this happens the MouseArea which is used to track the swipe movement even doesn't receive the press/click, so it seems like there's nothing I can do about it. So I can only advice the work around of first pressing the screen, and then doing the swipe. You don't have to hold it for an eternity, but if you first touch the gesture pad and then start the swipe it works as it expected (or at least for me).

Coming back to the crash logging. There is no way to handle/log the crashes. Crashes may be logged by Sailfish itself. But for them to be useful it would require the presence of the debug symbols, which can't be provided in the store. So when you do get a crash, try to reproduce it and post the steps either here or send me an email. The same goes for other issues, either post them in this thread or email them to me and I will look into it.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Xbmcremote is since this morning also available in Jolla Harbour. Although it lacks some features (so I would recommend using the OpenRepos version)

The features the Harbour version is missing are:

• No haptic feedback on the keypad (and thus gesture pad, which IMO is quite annoying as you lack the click feedback)
• No volume control, as it's implemented by using the hardware volume buttons, but it isn't allowed to listen for those key presses
• No caller name visible when you receive an incoming call. Calls can be detected, but to get the contacts name the app needs to read the contact list, which also isn't allowed.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Thanks. So are you planning on removing those features alltogether in next releases or have the caped one in harbour and the fully featured in openrepos?

Personally, I think the policy of jolla not allowing those features sounds a bit stupid.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

They will of course still be available in the OpenRepos version. I'll try to release them in the Harbour version as soon as possible, but that would require changes on those policies on Jollas end. So that would mean waiting till they support on or more of those APIs.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Found an issue. On the keypad view, there's only the upper pulley menu but you can push the page upwards, like there's a lower pulley menu. Found this while using the keypad like I described earlier.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Found that also already when reproducing your issue, and will be fixt in the next release. The push up menu is for toggling to the picture keypad (when viewing images) but it wasn't getting disabled properly.

Another reported issue (in Harbour) is the search field losing focus when it finds a result. This is also already fixt for the next release.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I just kinda randomly found the fix. So this will be fixed in the upcoming update :D.

If you can't live with this bug, and aren't afraid of modifying files on the device itself. You're able to edit /usr/share/harbour-xbmcremote/qml/pages/Keypad.qml. At line 49 there is a "anchors.fill: parent" add a new line after it "pressDelay: 0" (as shown in this commit). This should fix the issue. Although I didn't change the file myself on the device (I created a new RPM from Qt Creator), this should work, although I don't have any experience at all at modifying files directly on the device itself (without having a corresponding RPM).

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I've modified the file and it seems to be working. Thanks!

I've found another bug: When in movie or audio library in any of the subitems (album artists, etc) if you start typing to search, the keyboard is hidden every time you type a letter, so in order to search for a full name it's very clumpsy since you have to type a letter, then get the focus back on the search widget to continue typing.